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What do you get if you combine Google Maps and GasBuddy?

CheapGas.

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This entry was written by Dougal, posted on 5/17/2005 at 12:53 pm, filed under Geolocation, Maps, Search, Tech and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

11 Comments

  1. tyler
    Posted 5/17/2005 at 1:49 pm | Permalink

    That’s killer! Hell of an idea. Very useful too as prices at various gas stations here in Iowa range from between $1.85 and $1.97. I’m gonna be buyin cheap all the time now!

  2. John
    Posted 5/17/2005 at 4:47 pm | Permalink

    It looks like the account has been shut down. :( I think the news got out and his bandwidth went through the roof.

  3. echa
    Posted 5/17/2005 at 4:52 pm | Permalink

    maybe because your site is so popular, the cheap gas site got too many visitors that made its page suspended :(

  4. Dougal
    Posted 5/17/2005 at 4:57 pm | Permalink

    I doubt that it was my linkage that was the problem. I’m sure the site was getting much more traffic from linkage via the Make blog and the Unofficial Google Weblog.

  5. Andy Skelton
    Posted 5/17/2005 at 5:21 pm | Permalink

    Dougal, this post topped the BOTD BuzzList almost as soon as you posted it and it has stayed on top all afternoon. Way to go!

  6. Dougal
    Posted 5/17/2005 at 5:36 pm | Permalink

    Well, I do have the advantage of being in the Dashboard of a ton of WordPress users. I don’t think any of the other devs or other Planet Wordpress sources are using BOTD at the moment…

  7. Joe Murphy
    Posted 5/17/2005 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    http://www.joewrite.com/2005/05/google-maps-plenty-of-local-applications/ … for more ideas on that that tangent.

  8. Jacob Hantla
    Posted 6/22/2005 at 2:00 am | Permalink

    Looks like they are suspened. The page pops up as 404 Not Found as a suspended page.

  9. Richard
    Posted 9/15/2005 at 6:34 pm | Permalink

    I heard about a website last night on the news that’s doing this. It’s the same company that did mapsexoffenders.com. You just put in your street address and it will tell you what the cheapest gas station in your area. Maybe it will make gas stations lower the gas price or help people save a buck or two. The website is http://www.mapgasprices.com.

  10. Richard Martin
    Posted 4/19/2007 at 12:35 pm | Permalink

    How about cheap golf? We could combine the 2 and map out the locations? Would anyone be interested in that?

  11. find cheap gas
    Posted 6/17/2008 at 6:15 pm | Permalink

    I been looking for a way to do this on my site

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